Dumbledore's and Ron's watches (Was: Harry can still contact Dumbled

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>Carol
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So did DD time-travel to obtain the memories? I don't think so. Has  he
time-traveled for other reasons? Hard to say. Could he have been  an
invisible witness to his own death? Was that what he was doing when  he
sent Harry away to fetch the Invisibility Cloak that he'd already  told
Harry to keep with him at all times? I'd like to see him show up as  a
time-traveler to talk to Harry about Snape, to explain everything
about  the twoer scene and the argument in the forest that Harry and
the readers  need to know, and I can't think of a better way to do it.

Nikkalmati
 
This idea raises a question about time travel which I have not seen  
commented on here.  Sure, it would be nice to think DD is strategically  placed in the 
future waiting for Harry to come along so he can give him some  advice.  But, 
how can one time travel into the future?  Several  listees have brought out 
theories about time travel into the past such as we  have seen in POA.  One 
theory, which seems to fit the books, is that there  is only one past and it 
cannot be changed.  What about the future?   Aren't there numerous even infinite 
numbers of futures?  How would DD  pick the right one? Does the person 
traveling into the future have the ability  to freeze the future and make that 
particular one inevitable?   Please  scifi fans (or physicists)help out here.  The 
subject must have come  up..  
 
Nikkalmati (who consulted Wells' The Time Machine and was spooked out  by the 
horrible crustacean creatures in the light of the dying sun, but who  found 
no answer to the possibility of numerous  futures) 



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